Quotes About Commitment

diligence wins battles.

all problems can be solved if enough intensity and focus are applied.

Innovating comes at a price: it might be money, time, sanity, friends, or marriages, but there will definitely be one.

But long-term commitments demand short-term sacrifices. The question is, How willing are we to make the trade?

creativity is rarely efficient. It always involves taking chances and trying things that might work but might not. The question then is: are we willing to spend time to be interesting, to think interesting thoughts and make interesting things? We all have the power, but perhaps not the willingness.

Making everyone work in support forces everyone to take customers seriously, which we should since they pay our salaries.

On joining the aquarium community we all agreed to put aside our carnivorous ways to live off Professor Brown's fish food. Every one of us agreed! If we start to eat each other, what kind of life would that be?

When I get in the car I love my wife and kids more than anything, but I'm not thinking about that side of things. I'm thinking about the car, I'm thinking about the race and I'm thinking about how to make the car faster.

Christianity in my youth wasn't just the right choice; it was the only choice.

Focus isn't about hammering one nail all our lives. It's about hammering lots of nails, one way, all our lives.

Love is something worth suffering for...

The path to victory is the path you're on. It becomes a path to victory the moment you decide it does.

This is the power of finishing first. This is the power of showing up, leveraging your strengths and weaknesses, and outworking everyone. My world would never be the same.

This is where grace lives - in the jumping in. In showing up, day after day. In trying and learning and trying again and again.

Nobody ever washes a rental car.

This is your life, your one and only life, so take excellence very personally.

I didn't promise you shit. My dead friends, on the other hand--I made them certain promises I intend to keep.

Gentlemen Bastards." hissed Locke, "do not abandon one another, and we do not run when we owe vengeance.

If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time." Chinese Proverb

Jean ... you are a greater friend than I ever could have imagined before I met you; I owe you my life too many times over to count. I would rather be dead myself than lose you. Not just because you're all I have left.

I am through fucking around. Maybe this is going to complicate the hell out of things. So what? You're the complication I want more than anything else. You're my favorite complication. No matter what sort of holes you poke in my trust.

What good's slacking all the time if the ship comes apart beneath you while you sleep?

If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

You manage to survive me in my poorer moods.' 'Ah,' said Jean, 'but when a woman has your heart, she doesn't have poor moods. Only interesting moods . . . and more interesting moods.